US Air Date: 25/02/2007

Writer: Bryan Fuller

Director: Allan Arkush

This is the first Heroes episode that concentrates on one character and ‘Company Man’ clears up a lot of questions about Bennet. It also tells us about the origins of Claire, the Haitian and Bennet’s work for the agency. The episode begins with Matt, Ted and Hana holding the Bennets hostage at their home. Bennet then experiences a series of flashbacks, which reveal the following:
• Bennet was partnered with Claude as he began working for Primatech.
• Kaito Nakamura, Hiro’s father, gave Claire to Bennet after a fire that killed her biological mother. Kaito tells Bennet “She belongs to us. If she manifests, we take her.”
• Thomson first allowed Bennet to use the Haitian’s power to wipe memories when Bennet expressed concern that his wife was becoming suspicious about Claire. • Bennet was instructed to kill Claude for breaching security and thought he had succeeded when he shot him on a bridge. Claude had actually used his invisibility in order to escape.
At the house Ted becomes enraged and his powers set the house on fire, leading Claire to try to save him. She emerges with her skin burned to ash but in front of her family, neighbours and the police she immediately starts to heal. The episode ends with Matt and Ted in a cell and Thomson introduces him to his new partner, Candice Wilmer, before instructing him to bring Claire in. Instead Bennet takes Claire to meet the Haitian. He says a tearful goodbye to his daughter and instructs the Haitian to shoot him to make it appear that Claire was kidnapped. He then tells the Haitian to wipe his memory so fully that his superiors can find no clues to trace her.